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Portraits and self-portraits
A portrait is a likeness of a person, especially of the face, depicted in a painting, drawing, or photograph. Often, portraits are intended to create a likeness of someone; others, such as some works by Pablo Picasso, do not look exactly like the model, but rather constitute the artist’s interpretation of the whole person. Historically, the portrait has served as a mode of examining and communicating facets of an individual subject’s personality, where the artist uses such details as clothing, pose, facial expression, and setting to relay information about a sitter’s temper, intellect, beliefs, or social status. Throughout the 20th century, the examination of individual identity has remained a major preoccupation, with artists seeking to explore how character is shaped by personal biography as well as race, ethnicity, and gender, especially as our collective understanding of how such elements contribute to the formation of the self has become more nuanced and com
MOCA | The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles | Portraits and self-portraits portraits and self-portraits a portrait is a likeness of a person, especially of the face, depicted in a painting, drawing, or photograph. often, portraits are intended to create a likeness of someone;
http://www.moca.org/pc/viewArtTerm.php?id=43 [309 words]
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National Gallery of Art, NGA - Modern Portraits in Photography tour: modern portraits in photography overview « back to gallery like other traditional artistic genres, portraiture was radically transformed with the advent of modern art. before the 1800s, portraits typically depicted a sitter'
http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/ggmodphoto/ggmodphoto-over3.html [313 words]
National Gallery of Art, NGA - Modern Portraits in Photography tour: modern portraits in photography overview « back to gallery like other traditional artistic genres, portraiture was radically transformed with the advent of modern art. before the 1800s, portraits typically depicted a sitter'
http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/ggmodphoto/ggmodphoto-over2.html [313 words]
National Gallery of Art, NGA - Modern Portraits in Photography tour: modern portraits in photography overview « back to gallery like other traditional artistic genres, portraiture was radically transformed with the advent of modern art. before the 1800s, portraits typically depicted a sitter'
http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/ggmodphoto/ggmodphoto-over1.html [313 words]
National Gallery of Art, NGA - British Conversation Pieces and Portraits of the 1700s tour: british conversation pieces and portraits of the 1700s overview « back to gallery eighteenth-century british painters used the word "conversation" to describe informal group portraits as well as imaginary views of daily life, now called genre scenes.
http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg63/gg63-over1.html [570 words]
Photograph - John Ruskin; Portraits of many persons of note photographed by Frederick Hollyer - Victoria & Albert Museum john ruskin; portraits of many persons of note photographed by frederick hollyer object: photograph place of origin: brantwood (photographed) date: 1894 (photographed) artist/maker: hollyer, frederick (photographer) materials and techniques: platinum print credit line: given by eleanor m.
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O75378/photograph-john-ruskin-portraits-of-many/ [211 words]
Photograph - John Ruskin and Joan Ruskin; Portraits of many persons of note photographed by Frederick Hollyer - Victoria john ruskin and joan ruskin; portraits of many persons of note photographed by frederick hollyer object: photograph place of origin: brantwood (photographed) date: 1894 (photographed) artist/maker: hollyer, frederick (photographer) materials and techniques: platinum print credit line: given by eleanor m.
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O75373/photograph-john-ruskin-and-joan-ruskin/ [254 words]